Ichikawa once explained, “Literally translated, san-sui, means mountain and water, but, in Japanese art, san-sui represents the creation of an imaginary landscape that doesn’t exist in the physical realm. After applying colors and tones as randomly as possible, a vague feeling of illusional space appears on a surface of a painting. In order to make the sense of a space more concrete, I look for winding paths like streams of water in the scene.”Hiro Ichikawa
Periapsis, 2007
Oil on wood
25.5 x 25.5 inches, 64.8 x 64.8 cm
Signed, dated, and titled on verso(Astronomy- point of a body’s elliptical orbit around the system’s center of mass where the distance between the body and the mass is at its minimum)